Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002

259 leaves : 263 x 198 mm

Ms. of the Gospels, in Greek, written in Italy in the mid-14th cent

Italian paper, with watermarks indicating a date in the 1340's

Decorated initials

Binding: calf, as old as s. xvii, edges gilded and tooled in geometrical designs; front cover: center, crucifixion with four saints, in four corners are the four Evangelists; back cover: central panel with the Virgin and the Child with ornamental designs in the four corners of both covers. All tooling or stamping is gilded. Spine has five lozenge-shaped panels bearing and surrounded by flowers and leaves

Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary. UTS Ms. 69

Purchased; Vassilios Iatropoulos;

There is a note in modern Greek following f. 259 stating that a man with middle name Athanasios read the book through in 1871 in Moscow. Purchased in Moscow by Vassilios Iatropoulos, formerly of Denver, Colorado. Iatropoulos, living in New York City, sold the item on 15 January 1942 to Union Theological Seminary

Murphy, David J. "Hyphens in Greek Manuscripts." in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, vol. 36, no. 3 (Autumn 1995)

Columbia University Catalog: go to CLIO

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